How to play:Step 1. Peeps choose different elements to be included in a story.Step 2. After counting the votes, I let you know the results and…Step 3. Hand it over to Angelia, who has agreed to produce the short story incorporating your choices in about four weeks time.

The story prompts:

1. part of the setting

a) an abandoned mill Don Quixote style

b) a Peter Allen karaoke night

c) an anger management retreat at a monastery

d) a snowed-in ice station

2. some background to one of the main protagsa) one of them has had a succession of jobs including a dog walker, a forensic lab assistant, a trapeze artist, an accountant, a zoo keeper, a courier and a fluffer

b) one of them is petrified that ginger-haired people are going to take over the world

c) one of them has a piece of string tied around his finger to remember something, but can’t remember what it was

d) one of them is convinced that they’re going to imprint on someone

3. another character/sa) a chorus of male dancers who all have the same name

b) a lost – extremely precocious – toddler

c) a pig farmer who has a such a strong accent that it makes him/her hard to understand

d) an alien who has run away to Earth to become a cheerleader

4. a conflicta) an internal voice that suddenly develops a personality of its own

b) a ghost gerbil that keeps on moving things

c) a malfunctioning shrinking machine

d) xray vision

5. an object/phrase to be mentioned in the story somewhere

a) a panda bear costume

b) ‘an avalanche of …. [insert your choice of what here] …’

c) a sex education class for virgins of all types

d) a red velvet cupcake corset

Leave a comment or send me an email with your choices by midday Tuesday 5 April (Perth, Western Australia time).*

1) c – Anger management retreat2) c – Piece of string tied around his fingerAs a redhead (ginger you might say unless you wanted to live), I am taking over the world & so b is obsolete.3) c – Pig farmer (I'm from the land of unintelligible accents)4) b – Ghost gerbil5) b – An avalanche of dildos

1. part of the settingc) an anger management retreat at a monastery2. some background to one of the main protagsc) one of them has a piece of string tied around his finger to remember something, but can't remember what it was3. another character/sa) a chorus of male dancers who all have the same name4. a conflicta) an internal voice that suddenly develops a personality of its own 5. an object/phrase to be mentioned in the story somewhered) a red velvet cupcake corset

1- c) an anger management retreat at a monastery2- c) one of them has a piece of string tied around his finger to remember something, but can't remember what it was3- a) a chorus of male dancers who all have the same name4- a) an internal voice that suddenly develops a personality of its own5- d) a red velvet cupcake and/or corset